Many countries' central banks, totally independent, are buying stocks, putting them among the largest investors.

In general this pushes the stock markets up, but they also manipulate markets, causing and popping bubbles that they can take advantage of.

Prozac kills bacteria, the same way as some antibiotics, so it provokes some bacteria to evolve resistance to those antibiotics. The effect would occur in the bodies of patients using the drug, but also in rivers and lakes. Sewage treatment is not designed to degrade such drugs.

New business-supremacy treaties are moving from the full-strength ISDS (I Sue Democratic States) clause toward more limited variants.

I don't have information on whether these are significantly less of an impediment to democracy.

Public pressure made Sony release its claims to have a copyright on Bach's music.

Wherever automated copyright censor systems exist, a stream of such false claims will pour into them, and each one takes far more work to remove than to create.

Matt Taibi: The financial crisis of 2008 was the predictable result of allowing banks to make bad loans and turn them into a Ponzi scheme. The large banks were so tied together that they would all have crashed if not "rescued".

The result of the rescue was to make the big banks even bigger, give them special advantages, and repeatedly let them get away with crimes.